Radioactive groundwater washing through the complex is enough of a problem that Fukushima Daiichi owner Tepco has just won approval for a highly controversial ice wall to be constructed around the crippled reactor site. No wall of this scale and type has ever been built, and this one might not be ready for two years. Widespread skepticism has erupted surrounding its potential impact on the stability of the site and on the huge amounts of energy necessary to sustain it. Critics also doubt it would effectively guard the site from flooding and worry it could cause even more damage should power fail.

There is, however, some good news—exactly the kind the nuclear power industry does not want broadcast.

When the earthquake and consequent tsunami struck Fukushima, there were 54 commercial reactors licensed to operate in Japan, more than 12 percent of the global total.

As of today, not one has reopened. The six at Fukushima Daiichi will never operate again. Some 30 older reactors around Japan can’t meet current safety standards (a reality that could apply to 60 or more reactors that continue to operate here in the U.S.).

As part of his desperate push to reopen these reactors, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shuffled the country’s regulatory agencies, and removed at least one major industry critic, replacing him with a key industry supporter.

But last month a Japanese court denied a corporate demand to restart two newer reactors at the Ooi power plant in Fukui prefecture. The judges decided that uncertainty about when, where and how hard the inevitable next earthquake will hit makes it impossible to guarantee the safety of any reactor in Japan.

In other words, no reactor can reopen in Japan without endangering the nation, which the court could not condone.

Such legal defeats are extremely rare for Japan’s nuclear industry, and this one is likely to be overturned. But it dealt a stunning blow to Abe’s pro-nuke agenda.

In Fukushima’s wake, the Japanese public has become far more anti-nuclear. Deep-seated anger has spread over shoddy treatment and small compensation packages given downwind victims. In particular, concern has spread about small children being forced to move back into heavily contaminated areas around the plant.

Under Japanese law, local governments must approve any restart. Anti-nuclear candidates have been dividing the vote in recent elections, but the movement may be unifying and could eventually overwhelm the Abe administration.

A new comic book satirizing the Fukushima cleanup has become a nationwide best-seller. The country has also been rocked by revelations that some 700 workers fled the Fukushima Daiichi site at the peak of the accident. Just a handful of personnel were left to deal with the crisis, including the plant manager, who soon thereafter died of cancer.

In the meantime, Abe’s infamous, intensely repressive state secrets act has seriously constrained the flow of technical information. At least one nuclear opponent is being prosecuted for sending a critical tweet to an industry supporter. A professor jailed for criticizing the government’s handling of nuclear waste has come to the U.S. to speak.

The American corporate media have been dead silent or, alternatively, dismissive about the radiation now washing up on our shores, and about the extremely dangerous job of bringing intensely radioactive fuel rods down from their damaged pools.

As far as photographs go – have you seen pics of Nagasaki or Hiroshima today? Vibrant modern cities with a healthy population. Actually, after the initial months of horrendous medical complications from those nuclear weapons (& we can all agree that WMDs are horrendous!), residents of both cities had several decades of lower incidences of cancer likely due to radiological hormesis. RadiationandReason.com

darkmark

sure forbes and below he wsj. who do they speak for? the market, not people, oh wait a minute….

Scott Medwid

Fukushima would not have happened if TEPCO had build taller Tsunami walls, and IF TEPCO would have listened to their engineers about multiple back up pumps and locations for the back up generators and diesel motors to power the pumps. Radiation monitoring data can be obtained at http://www.IAEA.org/Fukushima. Read the data yourself. Learn to interpret the data yourself. ND means not detected above the LOW range of concern. and remember this about radioactive elements, each atom tells modern detection equipment where it is. In other words, each atom tells the wider world “I’m Here, I’m Here, I’m Here!”

Don’t let the B.S. in this article scare you. Learn more about nuclear power here: http://www.world-nuclear.org/Nuclear-Basics/What-is-radiation-/
Tab around and take a few hours to learn some science and engineering. When you learn the facts about nuclear power and the 50 year history and compare your new knowledge with the track record of all the power generation methods, I think you’ll sleep better at night. 20% of US electrical power comes from nuclear, Illinois- 50%, Ontario Canada- 45%, France- 70%
If your going to be against nuclear power at the very least, debate with the facts not Mr. Wasserman’s hyperbole.

“energy powerhouse Exelon follows through on a recent announcement that economic hardships may lead it to shutter three of Illinois’ six nuclear plants, effectively removing the state’s title as the country’s leading user of nuclear energy.

Exelon is expected to make a decision on the plant closings by the end of the year.”

Scott Medwid

On other pages here at ecowatch, carbon taxes are campaigned for to raise the price of fossil carbon fueled electricity production. These may or may not happen. Close up nuclear power in Illinois and you will see more gas and maybe even more coal get burned to keep the lights on. This is the model from Japan and Germany where nuclear power was turned off.
The renewable only environmental organizations have campaigned world wide to prevent advanced reactors from seeing development, no Integral Fast Reactors (U238 to Pu239 breeder/burners0 and no U233 Molten Salt Liquid fueled burners.
There was a 30 year gap in licensing in the US.
It is as if car technology stopped in the 1960’s.
Only in the last several years have the newer AP1000’s designs been approved for construction (one may say 1980’s car technology, but this is not really fair, these are good fossil fuel free energy making machines).
We do not mine and process the Rare Earth Elements needed to construct all 100’000 plus wind turbines and hundreds of square miles of solar needed to make up the loss of the nuclear fleet if it is closed as Mr. Wasserman et-al have wished for all these decades. We will continue to buy al of this finished technology from China (transferring the environmental pollution effects to the chines population).

darkmark

we’re still left with the old plant’s wastes. we’re still left with how to decommission the old plants. we’re still left with fukushima and chernobyl as reminders of what can go wrong.

chancellor merkel has a doctorate in chemistry. she’s a conservative politician. let’s just say she’s not dumb. her decision to completely end the use of nuclear power must have been quite a blow to the industry. she’s not a typical reader of ecowatch.

then there’s the added terrorist targets that nuclear power plants make. there are crazy people in the world. i’m not just talking about the ones who run the great american/corporate empire.

when we think of france with 70% of its power generated by nuclear power plants the first thing i wonder about is how do they decommission all of them or do they just keep extending their use with the attitude of , “no worries.”

china is supposed to hit 14 gigawatts of power by the end of the year, all from solar and wind. that’s a lot of growth in that sector of energy.

i would like it if nuclear power were safe but there are to many indicators that it isn’t. how much gov’t backing for each plant is required? loan guarantees, insurance guarantees? security questions. it seems like quite a slog getting nuclear power past all it’s hurdles. then is it ever really economical? how much does it cost to decommission one of these things?

Chernobyl was a poor design with few safety standards and hasn’t been built outside the USSR.
F-Dai-ichi did survive a strong earthquake and only failed so completely because efforts after the tsunami were hindered by a press-hungry, micro-managing prime minister. Delays caused by Tokyo politicians ensured that those hydrogen explosions happened at all – which caused irreparable harm to units 1-3. http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-third-anniversary.html (final paragraph)

Don’t forget that F-Daini and Onagawa tolerated both disasters in an exemplary fashion. Onagawa even became a shelter to local residents after the tsunami devastated the coast! http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news/2014/201405_onagawa-response_report.pdf No matter how much you may not like it, current nuclear is the greenest and safest base-load power source to date; and 4th gen nuclear will improve on those statistics. I’m actually looking forward to seeing a reactor in every US county within my lifetime!

darkmark

if what you say is true, that almost everything in this article is false. and if what i’ve read at the sites you and scott have offered up are as biased as they appear to me then no one is speaking the truth and we play russian roulette with our choices.

so when i read, “Three years after the plant suffered a triple meltdown that released huge quantities of radiation into the atmosphere, medical authorities in Fukushima prefecture are reporting a significant rise in the number of thyroid cancer cases among local children and young adults.” i shouldn’t worry.

remember those plants did explode. there is radiation being dumped into the ocean. the people who said it was safe are the ones saying its safe again. the people who were supposed to make it safe didn’t come out and tell people what was going on after the disaster occurred. they denied there were any problems when they knew there were, are. now you want us to trust these same people.

when 3 mile island was facing possible disaster the “experts” all told us there was no problem. BUT, when they went back to their private office and sat around their large table to discuss the events occurring, they didn’t know their mics were on and we heard them when they told each other, “what are we going to do? this thing could blow up. we can’t get the people out to safety…..”

nuclear power has a poor rating when it comes to telling the average person the truth. it has a very large propaganda machine going telling us it’s all apple pie and sweet smelling flowers.

do you really believe we haven’t heard of the after effects of the uranium laced weapons in fallujah?

“Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.

Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs. They said they were also seeing far more cancers than they did before the battle for Fallujah between US troops and insurgents.”

just how many truly frightening stories are we supposed to turn our backs on and smile happily when people tell us more stories about how wonderful nuclear power is?

there is a nuclear story to be told. the new plants are superior to the old ones. supposedly they produce 1/10th the waste per watt of power produced as old nuclear power plants.

half life of spent nuclear u235 and u238 is not as simple as all of it lasts for millions of years. but instead of coming out with facts the people got disney world fantasy stories.

one thing i’m sure of for profit corporations and gov’t bureaucracies screw up. when they do they don’t want to deal with their screwups. nuclear power isn’t something irresponsible people should be playing with. fukushima, chernobyl and 3 mile island weren’t the only disasters and near disasters of nuclear power plants. the industry and gov’t and their media covered up everything they could about the others. so we’re supposed to trust these same people?

you might have a good case but the industry doesn’t have a good track record for truth.

Scott Medwid

Depleted Uranium shells used in Iraq and Afghanistan are not nuclear power issues.
Three years after the Great Japanese Tsunami of 2011 we find detectible levels.

Tim Owens

Of course they are. Don’t be naive.

fiddie

Yes, very little in this article is factual truth. The clueless, ratings driven media and sly anti-nukes get 99% of the attention – so the general public gets brainwashed into thinking “If I don’t understand (& so many “experts” are deeply concerned), then this must be catastrophic and I should be afraid!”. Hogwash & FUD!! Just because someone is talking about nuclear doesn’t mean they represent the nuclear industry. Darkman, you’ve fallen for the misinformation sustained by ratings chasers. Read these *gloom & doom* articles like a proof-reading editor: ask questions. (there had never been a thyroid screening before. When screening southern Japanese islands, higher percentages of cancer have been found!)http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-child-thyroid-issue.html

1 out of 280,000 cancers is likely to be radiation caused. I feel bad for those babies, but it more likely those problems in Fallujah are caused by chemicals, which can be highly cancerous. If these small amounts of radiation were dangerous, we’d all be dead. All igneous rock (like marble columns or counter-tops) contain uranium. Also, on average a cubic meter of dirt (farm or garden) contains an atom of uranium too. How many gardeners wear safety suits? We live on a radioactive planet within a radioactive universe – or have you not heard of microwave background radiation (WMAP)? Our individual cells fix radiation damage constantly, just as we breathe naturally and constantly.

This is worth watching and commenting on. Use the time stamp in your comments please. I’m interested in reasoned criticism. Thanks for posting this.

Tim Owens

You must realize that quoting Forbes magazine is not making much impact on this discussion. I’m still waiting to hear how we mere humans with short lives and attention spans are going to keep track of this waste for hundreds or thousands of years.

lvdealer

darkmark, it appears that you are up against shills or fakes that are trying to downplay or credit the use of nuclear power. your knowledge, time and effort would be of greater service in commenting on pro nuclear blogs to discredit them. this would have a far better effect on those who are undecided about nuclear power being safe to think about.

however, i applaud your efforts to stand against pro nuclear advocates who are i believe paid shills or fakes that put to question their concern about ‘human safety first’ over so called ‘cheap energy’ that benefits those who profit from it, not the end users.

the truths about fukushima as well as other locations and the adverse health impact upon the people of the world will eventually be exposed. those who advocates the use of nuclear power will get their just rewards when they or their loved ones starts to get sick or die due to radiation sickness. then it will be crystal clear as to who and what companies are really concern about the welfare of human health as well as all living life on earth. hopefully, medical technology will find ways to cure or reverse the adverse effect of nuclear radiation in which i hope those who promoted it will bear the costs of rectifying the problem.

Scott Medwid

Here is an open letter to environmental organizations from some other “shills or fakes” http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists-letter/
For the record, I don’t get paid to research and write posts. I spread good information in the hope that some readers will reassess their preconceived notions and learn a little science and engineering on energy issues to better understand the world they live in.

Stopping CO2 build up from the burning of fossil fuels will require massive increases in wind and solar and hydro and geothermal and the development of tidal and free river turbines. What does o world of millions of big turbine towers sound like? There will be thousands of square kilometers of solar. How much will the cost go up to meet the demand and what of the cost to the land of all the mining and smelting for the steel, aluminum and Rare Earth Elements for the solartopia fevered dream espoused at EcoWatch. Solartopia technology needs base load power and coverage for when the energy farming drops when Nature stops supplying it. Nuclear power base load reliable power AND Solartopia energy harvesting technology are the only way reduce the burning of Coal, Oil and Fossil Gas.

Tim Owens

We can’t even handle the nuclear waste we’ve accumulated in 70 years. Tell me, Nuke advocates – how long do we have to keep this stuff in salt caves before it’s no longer hazardous?

Scott Medwid

This is an older video but there are many other waste burning designs that are ready for prototyping IF regulators allow developmental testing.

I agree we should not put spent nuclear fuel in caves, it should be reprocessed and used as fuel in waste burning reactors.

Kimberly

Please DO let the information in this article scare you, because believe me, there is good reason to be scared. My book, ‘Silence Deafening, Fukushima Fallout’ was published over one year ago and specifically points to media and government silence around Fukushima’s impact on the US food supply (also known as potential internal contamination). The AMA has asked that all seafood be tested in the wake of Fukushima, however currently the US has the highest allowable recommended levels for radiation in food in the world. Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network filed a legal document known as a Citizen Petition with the US FDA over one year ago asking that levels of radiation in our food supply be significantly lowered. The US is currently accepting Japanese imports deemed far too radioactive for their citizens. This is a tremendous radioactive loophole that must be addressed immediately.http://www.silencedeafening.com, http://www.FFAN.us

And since there are two dozen other sources right there and cited for your perusal, methinks you’re an ignorant knob who doesn’t actually care what the facts are. Or perhaps someone pays you pennies to spread disinformation.

Scott Medwid pushes propaganda. The thesis of his laughable industry-friendly piece is: “Decades ago, some poor science led to the conclusion that no level of ionizing radiation was small enough not to cause irrepairable damage to living cells.”

This was posted in response to actual field data from Chernobyl, and the US National Academy of Science BEIR VII (2006), which posits the linear no-threshhold LNT theory of radiation contamination.

That’s the source cited. The clown has nothing in his junior high school level screed to dispute the National Academy of Sciences, nor the EPA. Sorry clown. Bad clown. Go back to clown school.

The nuclear lies these people promote are criminal and poison millions of innocent people across eastern Europe and now across Japan. Their lies have real consequences. Nuclear plants are a clear and present danger and should be shut down asap. Rotting systems continue in use long after their design specifications (typically 40 years). Rotting pipes and inoperable back up generators increase the likelihood of Chernobyl/Fukushima USA. Don’t accept the assurances of demonstrable liars.

In 1991, between 300 and 800 tons of Depleted Uranium was blasted into
Iraq by US forces. Another estimated 170 tons were used in the 2003
bombing and annexation.
“The US ’ illegal aggression against Iraq has
resulted in the death of at least an estimated 1.5 million
Iraqis.500,000 Iraqi children (100,000 per year) were killed since 1996,
at that rate, another 900,000 have died, even if we estimate a lower
rate of 50,000 per year,.And millions more Iraqis of every age will
continue dying for centuries to come. from the depleted uranium. This is
a crime against humanity which may rank with the worst atrocities of
all time.
The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part,
is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive.And will
remain radioactive for the next 4.5 billion years”DNA mutations are
passed from parent to child.

The USA government lied about Iraq
being a threat to America. Our government manufactured a lie to create a
hysterical and perceived danger.The USA government created terror
where no terror existed.

The United States has illegally
used depleted uranium munitions on civilian populations. These military
actions are in direct violation of not only international conventions
but also violate U.S. military law because the United States is a
signatory to The Hague and Geneva conventions and the 1925 Geneva Gas
Protocol.

“Depleted uranium weaponry meets the definition of a
weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in two out of three categories under
U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 40 Sec. 2302. ‘After Action’ mandates have
also been violated such as U.S. Army Regulation AR 700-48 and TB
9-1300-278, which requires treatment of radiation poisoning for all
casualties, including enemy soldiers and civilians.

Chika Cox

France discards more Tritium and other N.Plant wastes to the ocean. Why those people do not take IAEA’s data more seriously? Is the author a specialist or does he have any academic background to talk about this?

Don’t believe the propaganda! END ALL NUCLEAR POWER NOW! There is no safe limit.

marc

The States have about sixties active nuclear plants esp. at the East coast.
91 % of them leak.That’s why the radiation limits are high.The longer ye wait closing them down the bigger the headache will be and maybe it wil be impossible in the future to do so.
Fukushima is indeed the nightmare of the Northern Hemisphere.Not knowing where three of the kernels are? Going on how long with polluting the sea in order tot prevent nuclear explotion disaster?By the way they are American designed and built too!
Always thought the States are the real and only evil empire, now I know for sure.They are behind most causes of ecocide.

Complaining about the infinitesimal radiation that might be going into the naturally radioactive Pacific is like worrying that tossing a book of matches into a bonfire will destroy the city. marc, you should learn facts before spouting FUD. http://safetyfirst.nei.org/public-health/radiation-basics/

Shane

Despite fiddie’s attempt below to equate a rational fear of radioactive contamination with superstitious fear of Fire by cave men long ago, it isn’t simply the likelihood of more reactor meltdowns that will occur that make attempts at making nuclear power viable foolish. It is the question of nuclear waste not being able to be safely isolated from the biosphere – nor will this problem ever admit of a techno-“solution”. Why on earth pursue it instead of amping up toward solar derived energies? The recent breakthrough in using super-heated steam derived from solar collectors proves that nuclear power is not needed as a “intermediary fix” between transitioning from fossil fuel to solar power. In what way is a rational fear of radioactive contamination different than the cave man’s fear of learning to kindle Fire back in pre-Promethean times ? Well here are two ways: plutonium oxide remains deadly for over 100,000 years. Some elements of nuclear power plants remain deadly for twenty five million years. Kind of makes the long lasting effects of foolishly building more nuclear power plants not like simply the “Luddite” fears of the “unscientific” caveman regarding fire doesn’t it fiddie ?

fiddie

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. A basic fact of radiation is that the highly radioactive elements also have short half-lives. It’s not that they are contain more radioactive energy, but they release that energy over a shorter time, hence the higher radiation levels. After 9 half-lives any element is considered to be gone (changed into another element on it’s decay chain. So those with half-lives under a decade are deadly for nearly a century; and those that last 100,000 years or more barely emit any radioactivity so that they are safe to handle. A pretty simple concept. What do you call really old uranium or plutonium? Lead. Thorium-232 has a half-life of 14 billion years, yet federal guidelines classify it as dangerous – that’s stupid!

Professor Wade Allison taught math & physics at Oxford for decades. Nearing retirement, wrote a college textbook on medical radiology and then wrote his excellent Radiation & Reason book for the public. http://vimeo.com/97112852

Galen Winsor was a WWII naval vet that was subsequently hired at Hanford as a chemical engineer. He sorted and handled uranium and plutonium with regular leather gloves or sometimes with bare hands. A couple decades later he was recognized as leading safety expert in civilian nuclear plants. One day some technocrat from Washinton DC showed up with safety regulations that neither Galen or his fellow nuclear workers were consulted about. A bunch of politicians had asked ignorant questions and came up with ridiculously strict guidelines – and it’s gotten worse over time. He and his co-workers knew from experience what was safe and prudent, but policymakers were uninterested in truth. http://youtu.be/ejCQrOTE-XA?t=47m42s Make sure to watch at 1:07 where he handles uranium with a Geiger counter.

Scott Medwid

Fukushima is in the process of getting cleaned up but the anti-nuclear leaders are still selling fear uncertainty and doubt. This is not a short film but you’ll learn what subjects are at the core of the advanced nuclear power agenda, abundant fossil fuel free energy for everyone. Energy cheaper than coal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaptvhky8IQ

fiddie

Many here can’t handle the truth, because they’re emotionally tied to fear just as Caldicott is.

Many here can’t handle the truth, cuz they’re emotionally tied to fear just as Caldicott is.

SKH

According to Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), the earthquake and subsequent tsunami affected fourteen nuclear reactors at four sites along the eastern coast
– the Fukushima Daiichi site (six reactors), Fukushima Daini site (four
reactors), the Ongawa [sic] site (three reactors) and the Tokai site
(one reactor).

the_deacon

From uranium mining to Fukushima, the nuclear fuel chain cycle is a long, dirty and expensive one. Anyone who claims it to be anything otherwise is either being paid(off) by the industry or naive. To all the pro-nukers out there with your pie-in-the-sky thorium salt and small modular reactors, I’ll make a deal with ya – do all your little tests and show us comprehensive, peer and independent reviewed data in 20 years that illustrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that these technologies are 100% above human error and natural disaster risk management and we’ll talk about it. In the meantime, grab a bucket and help put out the fires that burn TODAY at Fukushima Daiichi or STFU.

Hegetarian

Like your surfer cartoon. We still surf off the recently stopped but not yet decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The water there is just a little warmer than everywhere else 😉

Kaleta

Do not eat Pacific sea creatures…and other oceans are now suspect. Get your geiger counter asap…wash all vegs…grow your own…take off your clothes at the front door and have a new
set waiting. Don’t stand in the rain…or get wet by rain at all. Do not swim in lakes, river, oceans.
If you hike high in the Cascades, Sierras, wear a good mask…
We are perhaps breathing hot particles hourly..and they are cumulative. Live
every day to the fullest…as we do not know our futures…but who ever does really…but NOW there
is the added element of a toxic atmosphere due to greed beyond your wildest nightmares… Criminals
abound; in the media, all govt., all nuclear corporations….all complicit in the end of human civilization…as well as our beloved animals. I’m so sorry…..but be a lover until the very end….

bdeja

The nuclear industry cannot be trusted at all. Nor can government agencies that are in bed with it.

Tim Owens

My closing thought on this issue: I’ve attached a piece from the Santa Fe paper explaining how the WIPP facility radiation leak occurred. It’s a long and winding road with all sorts of safety checks along the way, which all failed. One 55 gallon drum has cost a whole lot of money and endangered who knows how many people. Anyone who thinks humans are capable of managing millions of similar 55 gallon drums is delusional or willfully blind. The IAEA signed a deal with the WHO in 1959, forbidding the premier global health agency from ever studying the effects of radiation on humans – ask yourselves why?

Against nuclear power? Watch this film and please refute it. Bring your math and facts to provide proof of your arguments. I was against nuclear power for years myself. But I can’t find fault in this movie or the website information.

We need to copy France ASAP. Keep fossil Fuels in the ground. Nuclear power, clean and renewable in that old fuel can be recycled. This how you clean up the existing stock pile nuclear reactor spent fuel rods.

Scott Medwid

There’s a shot of Harvey Wasserman from the 80’s in the early part of this film too!

Nuclear Power plants are built on billions of dollars of government subsidies, and decommissioning them costs $400 million or more. Thousands of metric tons of hazardous nuclear waste (including plutonium and strontium) need to be stored on each site because Yucca Mountain and Carlsbad Waste
Isolation Pilot Project (which have cost $ billions) have been proven unsafe. What is the REAL COST of a Nuclear Power plant including uranium mining, subsidies, building, maintenance, waste storage, insurance, and decommissioning costs? Now please add the cost of sickness and death from contamination.

Paul Kangas

The best thing that has happened, since Fukushima, was Chancellor
Angela Merkel switched sides, and now fully supports
Germany pushing forward towards 100% solar & RE.
I expect to see the Koch brothers switch side to 100% solar
just after our meltdown at Diablo Canyon.
It may be too late by then.
I just came back for 3 weeks is Freiburg, Germany,
making a film on how rapidly Germany is moving towards
100% solar.